I came into work this morning to find this email from Google AdWords: We have reviewed your account and found that one or more of your sites is in violation of our Landing Page and Site Policies. Customer ID: #*$!-#*$!-#*$!x Visible URL(s): .com/#*$!#*$!XX Please note that when a site is found to be in violation of our Landing Page and Site Policies, the site is disabled within your AdWords account and respective ads are disapproved for "Site Policy". Disabling is an action applied at the domain level, and it results in a low landing page quality score and termination of ad traffic....... I've been through the Google policies together with our account and website and can't identify what the problem is. We started a new campaign for our new site on Friday and received this message this morning. I'm not sure what the 'Visible URL(s)' means...any ideas? This has resulted in all our site campaigns being disabled. I've sent AdWords an email, haven’t heard anything yet. What to do now? Thanks
I assume the visible url is the URL which you are displaying below the Ad Text. Its not allowed to display a url displaying in the Ad text to be too different from the actual landing page
I am having similar issues with AdWords. This is the rejection email: "Dear AdWords Advertiser, We have reviewed your account and found that one or more of your ads or keywords has been disapproved for violating the following AdWords policy: -------------------- Site Policy: Your site is in violation of our Landing Page and Site Policies http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/static.py?topic=30210&guide=28439&page=guide.cs&answer=190447. This violation has lead to the disapproval of this site's AdWords ads. Please ensure your site complies with our policies before submitting for review. Note: Editing and resubmitting the ad will not trigger your site for re-review. To escalate your site for re-review, please visit http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/request.py?contact_type=adu_search&origin=cluster&displayed=151081&adsl=S&hl=en-us. ....~~~~~~~~~SUGGESTIONS: -> Your site must comply with our Landing Page and Site Policies http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/static.py?topic=30210&guide=28439&page=guide.cs&answer=190447." The way I understand that is that my entire site is rejected. All of the ads I try to submit are getting rejected 'Disapproved' with Site Policy as the culprit. I have a blog about baby products and information with some affiliate stuff included. But the primary purpose is sharing valuable information for free and the secondary purpose is to get some affiliate cash. So it is a legitimate blog and I am not sure why I am unable to advertise via AdWords. My site is http://teetherstore.com. Can anybody help me out here?
The way that page is set up is too general. You have to use specific landing pages for specific keywords. The way you have setup your site now even if they approve your ads you will still find it hard to make money. It also looks like you are not passionate about the subject, you are just trying to make money. At first glance it looks like you paid a bunch of people to write articles for you on the keywords you specified for them. Simply put, it doesn't seem to offer value therefore you are getting rejected.
Thanks for the quick reply. I think there is valuable content on the site, for example this article: http://teetherstore.com/read-baby-articles/baby-nursery-furniture-baby-changing-stations/ I created an AdWords ad that looks like this: Baby Furniture Baby Changing Stations and Baby Nursery Furniture. teetherstore.com and that links directly to the article page. This is my dilemma, because that is an example of the primary purpose of serving valuable information and the secondary purpose of serving affiliate links. I have all kinds of different categories and posts in the blog and only some of it is with the intention of selling anything. Thanks for your tip on the generic landing page, but I originally tried the actual post page in AdWords and that was rejected as well. I am going to have enough content so that I can link to actual post pages all day long but it will not help if I cannot get approval from AdWords. Any specific suggestions? You seem to know what you are talking about so any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.
First of all, serving valuable information and serving affiliate links shouldn't be put in one sentence. Even if you mean it nobody will believe you. Secondly, your advert is advertising baby furniture and there is no baby furniture on your site. The article you are talking about doesn't even have a picture of baby furniture. Thirdly, Google states that your landing page must have unique and original content. You pulled your article from Article Base. There is nothing original about that. Fourthly, any time you put content on your site from free article directories you are putting yourself at risk for duplicate content penalty as far as SEO is concerned. Another nail in your coffin. Fifthly if you really want to offer value, do your own research and simply throw yourself into the process. It is not just Google who will find your site of little value. Most people will not find it useful for reasons that are way beyond this post. I'm not trying to put you down, it's the plain truth. Basically you have to start from scratch.